Worlds News: *Results/Start Lists *TV Schedule The only way to watch the worlds live is on WCSN for $4.95
Thursday Distance Qualifying: 5000: Tariku Bekele, Kipchoge Lead 5000m Qualifying as All 3 Americans Advance Adam Goucher even qualified despite kicking a lap early. (Slightly related: the IAAF should end qualifying on time in events above 800). Ethiopian Perspective: Tariku Bekele and Abraham Cherkose negotiate tricky 5000m semis 800 *Round 1 of 800: Rashid Ramzi Runs, All the Favorites Advance The most exciting event at Worlds.
Jana Pittman Wins 400m Hurdles *Video of Jana Rawlinson Winning 400m Hurdles
Lagat Gets Gold Webb 8th The world's 2nd fastest ever at 1500m has been the bridesmaid twice and missed the last 2 World Championship. But on Wednesday he was golden as he powered down the final straight to capture the title as a slew of guys were in contention for the title. It was the first US 1500m title in 99 years. 2007 World leader Alan Webb faded to 8th during the final straight. Alan Webb Quote: "It was a colossal breakdown" *Tim Layden Writes About the Dejection of Alan Webb and Stomach Problems That Plagued Lagat Earlier This Summer *Philip Hersh: Did Webb's Desire to Get in Front Doom Him? *Washington Post on Bernard Lagat and Webb Washington Post *IAAF Recap here. Letsun.com recap coming *Quotes from top 4 (Ramzi said he had bad tactics) *Photos *Video 1500: The Final lap of the men's 1500m
Tuesday: Kipruto Shows There is Order in the World and Leads Kenyan 1-2-3 Sweep No country dominates an event like Kenya does the steeplechase. Kenyan born athletes have every gold medal and 30 of the 39 total medals since 1988.
Monday *Lagat/Ramzi Impress, Webb Barely Survives 1500m Semifinal Webb was in last place on the last lap and was just able to barely move up the final 5 meters and get the last automatic spot (by .06) for the final, as he gave many letsrun.com viewers a near heart attack. Rashid Ramzi won Webb's heat. In the other heat, Bernard Lagat was in last place as well for most of the heat but smoked the field the final 100m to get the win. The big news was the DQ of Mehdi Baala which is the best news Alan Webb could have gotten on a day where he was 5th in his semi. *Message Board thread on Webb's Semi
Russia Goes 1-2 in Women's Steeplechase And that was even with Russian world record holder Gulnara Samitova-Galkina finishing 7th after fading off of her fast opening pace. *Jepkorir Talks About her Bronze in Steeple, Admits Women's Steeple Isn't that Deep
Sunday Recap from IAAF In addition to Tyson Gay, World Champ Bershawn Jackson crashed into the final hurdle while leading and did not make the final as a result. 800 Semis: Janeth Kepkosgei Cruises to 1:56.17 World Leader in Semis of 800 at World Champs
Tirunesh Dibaba Survives Fall Retains Gold Goucher Gets Bronze A side stitch to Tirunesh Dibaba and a collision between the Ethiopians shook things up in the women's 10k and gave the opportunity for Kara Goucher to get the bronze. Dibaba fell off the pack, grabbed her side, and contemplated dropping out but stormed back to the victory. Goucher held off Jo Pavey for the bronze. *Sports Illustrated's Tim Layden Writes about Goucher's Historic Medal *Dibaba's Effort Is Herculean *Britain's Jo Pavey Runs Race of Life But Finishes 4th in 10k Independent Blowout LetsRun.com Coverage of Worlds Luke Kibet Wins Marathon Kibet was unheralded coming in, but blew away the field for the win in the opressive heat. The hometown Japanese got the team gold as the World champs got underway. LetsRun.com Previews (Plus Your Predictions): *Men's Steeplechase World Champs Preview: Can The Kenyans Sweep? *Women's 10k Final: 2007 World Championship Women's 10k Preview: Dibaba Going for 9th World Crown at Age 21 Dibaba is truly incredible and only 21.
Previous Previews Men's Marathon: A New Champion Will be Crowned 2 time champ Gharib is out. Hendrick Ramaala is the LetsRun.com fans favorite. Men's 1500: 1500m World Champs Preview: Alan Webb Goes for History The first round is never a cakewalk in the 1500. Women's Steeple: Can The Russians Sweep? Probably not Women's 800: An 'Unkown' Favorite
2 Time Defending Champ Gharib Out of Marathon The action gets away Saturday (am) in Japan. Friday afternoon in the US. Check back later today as we start our extensive worlds coverage with a men's marathon preview. *Marlon Devonish Does Not Think Both Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay Will Make 100m Final Times of London *Tyson Gay Leads American Sprinters at Worlds *Former World Champ Eunice Barber Out of Heptathlon, Helps Chances of Brits Kelly Sotherton and Jessica Ennis *Tyson Gay Leads American Sprinters at Worlds
Injury News: *Marathoners Constantina Tomescu Dita and Wataru Okutani Out of Worlds Dita was a strong medal threat. *Christian Olsson Reinjurs Hamstring is Out of Worlds Which Improves Chances of Phillips Idowu BBC
Nice Read: Swedish Steepler Mustafa Mohamed Has a Good Shot at a Medal and He Credits Training in Kenya for His Success His training partner is Paul Kipsiele Koech, the World #1 in 2007, who didn't make the Kenyan team. Mustafa says, "Before I went (to Kenya) I thought I trained hard, but I learnt what hard training really is there"
More Worlds News: *Ana Guevara Targets 4th Medal at Worlds *Simeon Williamson, Britain's Top Young Sprinter is Sitting at Home for Some Reason Guardian *After Great Success in 2004, Sheena Johnson is Tryiing to Get Back on Track in 07 with a New Coach She's now with Felix Sanchez's coach *Ugandan Athletes to Be Managed by Their Local Managers Previous: *Asafa Powell Goes Clubbing in Japan Until 2am But he did show up for training 4.5 hours later. *Jeremy Wariner Thinks He Can Get World Record in 400 at Worlds Guardian *Sudanese Athletes, Including Some from Darfur, Are Hoping to Make Their Mark at Worlds Brits *British #1 Long Jumper Chris Tomlinson Nearly Quit Sport Times of London *Kelly Sotherton Hopes Javelin Problems are Behind Her BBC
Worlds Start Friday *Associated Press Preview of Worlds We'll have our world famous prediction contest up tomorrow. *New Zealand WChamp Team Announced - 10 Athletes Strong Adrian Blincoe made the cut for the 5k but has withdrawn
Forget About Worlds, Some People Are Already Worried About Olympic Trials Housing: *Long Article On Track Town Housing Mania - House With Maid Service + Wifi For 8k registerguard.com Shorter 1 Page Articles on The Details of the Mania: *Apartments Across The Street From Hayward Field Are Going For $250 a Night In Eugene
Some Eugene Residents Are Offering Their Houses For Swapping on Craigs List For Next Year's Trials *An Email Interview With British 400m Runner Andrew Steele Independent
*Great Britain's Chances For Success Appear Slim Two years ago they didn't win gold until the last day thanks to Paula Radcliffe. This year, things are expected to be even worse. Could they really get shut out of all individual medals *A New Breed of Sprinter: Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell The two are very fast but they don't trash talk, instead they are polite and speak softly. *A Look At Jamaica's Best Medal Hopes *Profile of GBR Marathoner Mara Yamauchi She was born and educated at Oxford but actually lives now in Japan.
IAAF Previews: *Preview of 5k and 10k at Worlds *Preview of Marathons at Worlds *Kenyan Team Wraps Up Training in Kenya for Worlds EA Standard *Kenyan 800m Hopes on Wilfred Bungei's Shoulders at Worlds allafrica.com **Björn Otto Finally Bringing Success in Vault Outdoors BBC Previous: *World Champs Throws Preview *World Champs Hurdles Preview *Osaka Jumps Preview
Track and Field Star=Designated Driver: Lengthy Jo Ankier Profile The beauty is trying to avoid the Anna Kournikova Syndrome "A lot of people would say to me: Jo, you never drink. But it was good
for my friends as it meant that I would often do the driving."
Craig Mottram Pulls Up on Track With Hamstring Scare The LetsRun.com spies are all over the world.
Alan Webb Breaks 25-Yr Old American Record In Mile!! In front of a tiny crowd of less than 1,000 in Belgium, Webb ran 3:46.91 to break Steve Scott's record. Webb is now the 8th fastest miler in history, and the 7 ahead of him are a who's who of track and field's all-time bad-ass middle distance runners. The Belgium meet actually had a lot of fine distance action with tons of Americans. In the women's 5k, American Molly Huddle got the win in a new pr of 15:26. In the men's 5k where American Dathan Ritzenhein had the lead with 400 to go but got blown away by Daba Bekanaand Alistair Cragg over the last lap. Bekana got the win in 13:06 as Ritz ran 13:16. In the women's 1500,
Lauren Fleshman had a 4 second PR as she ran 4:07 to get the win over Amy Mortimer. In the men's 1500, Ian Dobson, whose previous pr was 3:43.04 ran 3:39.62 for 2nd. *Results *Race Video *Post-Race Teleconference Excerpts From Webb
All Africa Games: Day 4: Van Zyl leads South African gold parade in Algiers Day 3: Kaki surprises Mulaudzi in Algiers - All
Africa Games Day 3 Day 2: World XC Champ Zersenay Tadesse Wins All Africa 10k Title in 27:00, Nigeria Sweeps 100m Crowns Tadesse got Eritrea's first gold at the Games but it has only been a country for 14 years. *Results
Track Talk- 1st Podcast
Our 1st Ever Edition of Track Talk (Tuesday)Featured Alan Webb - Download or Listen Here
Since two weeks ago our live broadcast of the USATF 10ks made history and was the largest live show ever listened to on talkshoe.com, we thought we'd try again. Despite a few technical difficulties (sorry about the small echo on our end when Wejo or Rojo spoke for the first part), the show ended up being a success as Alan Webb joined us live from Sweden and answered any and all questions - including questions no one but LetsRun.com would dare to ask. Webb talked about everything from his chances of medalling
at worlds, to his failure
at Pre, to who would win at 10k Ritz, Hall or himself. Webb even picked a winner in a hypothetical race between Jim Ryun and Steve Scott and even talked about his future marathon debut. Plus the personal side of Webb came out as he talked about running with random high schoolers in Europe. At the end of the interview, Webb even answered the question that has spawned at least 3 lengthy threads in the last month - Rogaine or Propecia? Download
or listen here
*More On Alan Webb's 800 PR From Monday: The guy who beat him wasn't a chump - he was world junior champ last year.
*A
Must Read
Inspirational Profile of Boston Marathon Record
Holder Robert Cheruiyot The
life story of Cheruiyot, who is looking for his 3rd Boston title
Monday, is truly remarkable. After being abandoned by his
parents, he found a way to survive, first as an indentured
servant and then on 30 cents a day helping out at a barbershop
where he smoked every day. Thoughts of suicide entered his
mind but now less than 10 years later he is running for history
although last year's crazy fall
at Chicago hasn't helped him as
he had to go back to the hospital just 3 weeks ago.
In case you
missed it:
Todd Williams Hangs them up
In our lengthy 3 part interview, Todd Williams, the premier 10,000m
runner in the US, talks about his illustrious career and the sport of
running in general.
Part I
here,
Part II
here, Part III
here
Also
take a look at Amby Burfoot's look at Todd Williams' incredible American record
at 15k in 1995, the
same year he finished 9th
at World Cross Country.
More
isn't always better:
"I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted
that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent less, I would
have won. I was training like a crazy person. There was a lack of
self-confidence and a lack of maturity. An athlete does not only train
with his body. He trains with his mind."
-Hicham El Guerrouj on
why he didn't win Olympic gold in 2000
JK Speaks: Progressing
To Peak Fitness LetsRun.com
coaching guru John Kellogg talks
about progression runs and the art of the sport versus the science of
the sport.
LetsRun.com
Book Reviews 2 Good Reads on Milers 50 years apart:
Sub 4:00 and The Perfect Mile
"Paul
Maurer, in The Gift, not
only presents an interesting and captivating story, but he explores the
deeper questions of why runners run, why we compete, and what makes
such a simple sport, running, so rewarding to those of us who do it. The
Gift is one of the
best running books
I have ever read. "
-LetsRun.com's Weldon Johnson
on
a new Running novel,
The Gift
(The
Gift is now available from Amazon.com)
Paul Tergat
*"As the holy scriptures say, 'for whoever much is
given, much is
expected,' it is, therefore, my duty and privilege to help in any small
way in giving back to society."
-Marathon
world record holder, Paul Tergat, speaking after
founding a sports foundation that will help disadvantaged youths.
*Tergat's
hamstring injury has healed and he
says he's ready to go at NYC: "I
expect good results as I am in good shape"
but he's
out of next week's Half Marathon in Britain, but
interestingly Gezahegne Abera (remember him,
formerly the greatest marathoner in the world) is running. www.registerguard.com
And
the
winner is:
Best
Running
Movie of All-Time: Fire
on the
Track
After
sitting on the results for months, we're proud
to announce that the best running movie of all-time as selected by our
viewers is a not an academy award winner, Chariots
of Fire, or a
highly publicized film produced by Tom Cruise (Without
Limits),
but rather a running documentary,
Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine
Story. Read all about the
voting and see
the 10 best running
movies of all-time as selected by our viewers.
A Staff of
One:
"Perhaps the most
valuable gift from
Letsrun.com is a friendly
willingness to share lessons learned by their editorial staff, which
includes successful college coaches and highly competitive athletes. "
-Gary Droze, writing about
letsrun.com in the Tallahassee
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Thursday: Results Tyson Gay Gets Second Gold Joins Mo Greene As Only 100-200 Double Winner Hopefully Lance Brauman his coach was able to see his prodigy win gold live on WCSN. Video: Video of Tyson Gay's 200m Win *Now the Marketing of Tyson Gay Begins An article in the NY times doesn't hurt to kick things off.
Saladino
Wins Incredible Long Jump Andrew Howe PRd on the final jump to take the lead then Saladino prd as well to get the win on his last jump. Not quite as good as Powell and Lewis in 1991. *Video of Saladino's Clutch Winning Long Jump *Video of Andrew Howe Taking Lead in Long Jump and Then Going Nuts Yes nuts. Worth a watch.
Just Like in 2005, Mbulaeni Mulaudzi Enters 800 as World Leader *The Other Americans in 400 Want to Shine *Africans Starting to Fear Mottram 5k prelims
Wednesday: *Michelle Perry Repeats as World Champ in Hurdles She still is in contention for the Golden League jackpot as well. *Ohuruog and Sanders 1-2 Reminds Britain of Its Glory Days in Track and Field Independent *Michael Johnson: Christine Ohuruogu's ban helped transform her *Donald Thomas Wins High Jump He's the guy who jumped 7 feet in high tops with his buddies last year after they said he'd be good at it.
Wednesday's Minor Action: *Women's 5k Heats America's Jen Rhines and Shalane Flanagan made the final *Britain's Jo Pavey Makes 5000m Final *Favorites Advance in Women's 1500m Qualifying Treniere Clement and Erin Donohue made the final.
Kenya Gets 4 Medals in 20 Minutes on Tuesday
Dominque Arnold Out of 110m Hurdles
After Year of Hell, Christine Ohuruogu Is Shooting for Podium Today in 400
Neighbors Impressed, Surprised Luke Kibet Won Gold in Marathon
LetsRun.com Women's 800m: Historic Win for Janeth Jepkosgei Contrary to popular opinion, the Kenyan women have had very little success at the World Champs or Olympics (only 12 medals of any kind at the last 16 champs) Jepkosgei helped change by getting Kenya's second track gold ever on the women's side and first medal ever in a middle distance event.
Tirunesh Dibaba Decides Not to Defend 5000m Title Against Defar The world champs will miss one of the most anticipated matchups.
For all of You Saying Alan Webb Was Taking it Easy: Alan Webb Acknowledges He was Not Sure He Made the Final
Monday: Bekele Survives Strong Challenge from Sihine and Mathathi Mathathi nearly broke Bekele and Mr. Silver Sihine appeared to be sprinting away from him on the final lap, but in the end Bekele had a monster final 200 to get the win. Abdi Abdirahman hung with the leaders for 7k and finished 7th. Dathan Ritzenhein and Galen Rupp were off the pace throughout but finished a respectable 9th and 11th. *Quotes from the Americans We Agree: Sileshi Sihini the Most Underrated Runner in the World
Veronica Campbell Wins 100m in Blanket Finish at Worlds It took at least 5 minutes to determine a winner as she edged Lauryn Williams and the unknown Carmelita Jeter *On the boards: Was Lauryn Williams Robbed? *Tim Layden Writes About Lauryn Williams, Lance Brauman, Alan Webb Sports Illustrated
Tyson Gay 9.85 Win over Asafa Powell He walked down Powell to get the coveted 100m title as Powell locked up and got 3rd. *Michael Johnson Says Asafa Powell is Not a Great Competitor *Tyson Gay's Coach Lance Brauman Gets Out of Jail Today Video: Men's 100m Final *Tyson Gay Talks About His Win *Derrick Atkins Talks About His Silver Video: Horrendous Fall in Men's Steeple Chase Warning This is Not for the Feint of Heart Video: Tyson Gay Talks About His Win *Tyson Gay Website Launches Nice timing as adidas now has the fastest man in the World for the first time in a while. More Sunday Coverage: Kelly Sotherton Gets Bronze in Heptathlon Rails On Drug Cheat Silver Medallist
Reese Hoffa Wins Shot, Adam Nelson Gets Silver A 1-2 for the former training partners. Saturday Recaps: *From Chicago Tribune The British Are Coming: Three Brits May 100m Semis, Only 1 American *S. Africans Bomb in 400m Hurdles *Brits Jessica Ennis and Kelly Sotherton Have Medal Shots after Day 1 of Hepathlon, Carolina Kluft Looking Good
LetsRun.com Fireworks in Round 1 of Men's 1500m: Kiprop Makes Statement , Ramzi Looks Good Asbel Kiprop stared down Alan Webb DURING their heat and then threw up a #1 sign at the finish. Defending champ Ramzi ran his first race of 2007 and did not look like he has missed the entire season with injury. Extensive LetsRun.com coverage
Non LetsRun Coverage of Worlds: *Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay Crusie in Round 1 The big shock was Francis Obikwelu, the Olympic Silver Medallist, false starting and being dqd. *IAAF Recap of Kibet's Marathon Win * Tim Layden of SI's 8 Matchups to Watch at Worlds *Amy Shipley Recap from Wasington Post Pre Worlds Coveage: IAAF Preview of Day 1 of Worlds Hopefully people will turn out as ticket sales are disappointing. *Christine Ohuruogu Runs 50.56 in Osaka Preview BBC Mens 1500: Asbel Kiprop Received Like a Star in Japan His PR is 5 seconds slower than Webb but some think he has a shot. Heptathlon Starts: Kelly Sotherton Thinks She Can Dethrone Carolina Kluft Times of London 1st 2 Round of Men's 100: World Record May Be Broken in Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell Showdown Men's 5k : African Champ Moses Kipsiro Has His Birthday on Day of 5k Final Men's 400: Michael Johnson Says Jeremy Wariner Can Break His World Record Random: *Seb Coe 'Britain Will be Lucky to Win Three Medals' *Retired 9.98 Man Jason Gardener Talks About Worlds *Britain May Get Its Worst Medal Haul Ever at WorldsGuardian
Seb Coe, Sergey Bubka Elected IAAF VPs *BBC Audio Interview With Seb Coe American Bob Hersh was also elected *Ex Doper, Stasi Informant Heike Drechsler Elected to IAAF Committee *Results of All IAAF Elections
Worlds Distance News: *Kenenisa Bekele dismissing Craig Mottram *Ethiopian Sensations Dibaba and Defar Ready to Resume Rivalry at Worlds *Is This the Year for 1500m World Leader Yelena Soboleva? *S. African Team Ready for Marathon on Saturday at Worlds *Nigeria Athletics Coach Says Team Did Not Prepare Properly *Kenyan Men Hoping to Repeat Success of 1991 Worlds in Tokyo
Craig Masback Head of USATF Gets a Blog: "It is impossible to compete against romanticized recollections of what it
used to be like." People love to romanticize everything. No one saw Alan Webb break the AR this year and the public really didn't care but in 30 years we'll all act like everyone did.
News We Missed: Rashid Ramzi Only 75% Fit The 800, 1500m World champ has not raced in 2007.
Seb Coe Up for IAAF Vice Presidency, Likely to Vie with Bubka for Presidency Times of London
Worlds Distance News: *Kenyan
Junior Asbel Kiprop Has PB 5 Seconds Slower than Alan Webb, He Has Not
Run Well Outside of Africa, Yet Some Are Picking Him for Gold He was the World XC jr champ and All Africa Games 1500m champ. *Bekele Heavily Favored to Make it 4 in a Row at 10k *Steve Cram: More Athletes Need to be Like Liz McColgan Guardian Kenya: *Kenya Hasn't Won a World Champ Gold in 20 Years in Men's Marathon Don't expect it to happen this year either as Kenya's best men aren't running worlds. *First Kenyan Contingent off to Worlds
Gouchers, Rupp (and AlSal) Ready for Worlds: Rupp, Gouchers and Salazar Go to Altitude They appear to have left nothing unaccounted for in their Worlds preparation. Not only do they go to altitude but they took their altitude tents with them.The Oregonian did 3 articles on their Worlds preparation. More on Gouchers, Rupp and Salazar at Altitude Photos plus more details on Salazar's heart attack. The paddles had to be used 8 times (not 4) on him and his doctors said he had a 1/10,000 chance of surviving. *A Look at the Science of Going to Altitude *Message board thread on these articles
Drug Cheat Mastermind Victor Conte Trying To Rebuild His Life The guy is still involved in sports and supplements
2 Time Defending Champ Tatyana Tomashova Out of Worlds Is it just us or do the Russian women not get a lot of respect? Her name barely rung a bell.
Paula Radcliffe Consulting Experts About Pollution in Beijing The pollution is going to be bad unless the government totally shuts down the country's factories which it has said it might do. Ahh the advantages of totalitarism (If anyone has any good ideas for Beijing political commentary tshirts email us. We'll both get rich.) *Pollution to be a Big Problem in BeijingBBC
Kenyan 800m Hopes on Wilfred Bungei's Shoulders at Worlds allafrica.com
LaShawn Merritt Says Jeremy Wariner is Beatable and He Is the One Who Will Beat Him Merritt dedicates every race to his brother, Antwan, who died in tragic circumstances in a dorm room fall in 1999. He'll have his hands full with Wariner but just as this message board poster was saying in a detailed analysis (post of the day nominee), Merritt is the only runner capable of beating Wariner. Apparently Merritt's grandmother died last week. We send our condolences.
Retired Ian Thorpe Providing Medical Records to Explain Why He Had High Testosterone Levels
Paris Golden League Meet WEBB 3:30.54 Win in Paris!!!!! Webb went through the 1200 in 2:49 when Baala took the lead. Both guys were battling down the home stretch but Webb just had enough strength left over the last 50 meters to get the biggest win of his career in a time that makes
him the #3 American (fastest American born). Unlike the Sports Illustated cover jinx, appearing in a LetsRun.com live podcast gives one great karma. Listen to Webb talk about his career on Tuesday - just 3 days before the biggest win of his career.
*Results *Distance Recap (RRW) The men's steeple was a disaster as they miscounted the laps
*Overall Meet Recap (IAAF)
*Recap of Webb's Race (IAAF) *AP Recap: Sanya Richards Runs Fastest 400m Of Year *Cuba's Dayron
Robles Stuns WR Holder Liu Xiang 13.13 to 13.15 *Derrick Adkins Asafa Powell's 2nd cousin Wins 100m *James Carter Edges A. Taylor In 400h as Tirunesh Dibaba Wins 5k in 15:21 *Webb Post Race Flocasat Video Interview *American Star Jim Spivey Posts About Alan Webb Twice Here and Here Spivey
made three Olympic team, got 5th in the 1984 Olympics, and ran 3:31. *Britain's Phillips Idowu Skips Paris GL *Britain's Tim Benjamin Struggles Home 7th In 400m
*Start Lists *Paris Golden League Preview IAAF The Golden League meets are the top ones in the world for a reason. The LetsRun.com anticipation centers on the hot men's 1500 with a stacked
field including Americans Lagat and Webb. *Lagat Ready for Baala's Challenge Today in Hot 1500 in Paris IAAF *Asafa Powell Out of Golden League Meet and
$1 Million Chase With Groin Injury *British Triple Jumper Idowu Out of Golden League Chase with Injury *Isinbayeva Ready for Golden League Challenge Today IAAF Video: *Bernard Lagat Pre Race Press Conference
A Great Read!! An
Interesting Profile Of Currently The World's Fastest Man Tyson Gay The former Razorback talks about drug acusations in sport, running fast and being coached by a man in prison.
Haile Gebrselassie's Addicted to Running: "I always have a goal to do something. That way I keep running. It's
an addiction to winning. But it's also an addiction to run - it is like
a drug. If I'm not sweating I don't feel good."
Wejo's Kenya Trip: Kenyan Distance Running Part I: Kenya, the Land of Opportunity You've seen the highly praised photos, read the incredible race recap, now
learn about the Kenyan distance phenomenon. In this article, Wejo looks at the motivations of Kenyan runners. "Running in Kenya is by and large about one thing: money opportunity.
LetsRun.com Wejo's Kenya Photos: 546 Photos from His Post World XC Trip See how the Kenyans live and train in Eldoret and Iten. Plus photos of Kip Keino's center, St. Patrick's High School, Singore Girls School, Lornah Kiplagat's, and the Kimbia house. Not to mention photos
of Tergat, Tanui, Kiplagat, and many more.
Boston Commentary:: *Bob Ryan of Boston Globe: Kenyans Have Established a Tyranny "Dominance? Did I hear someone say "dominance"?
That would be an
improvement. What the Kenyans have done to the Boston Marathon, and a
few other marathons, is establish a tyranny that certainly should be an
embarrassment to the rest of the running world...Well, guess what? You think the outcome would have been much different if it had been 80 degrees and sunny?" *LetsRun.com Rojo Speaks: Inspired By a Kenyan Robert Cheruyiot Cheruyiot is a true star in the sport and a truly unbelievable rags to riches story. *LetsRun.com Wejo Speaks: Spira Shoes Attempting to Make a Mockery of the Boston Marathon 2 guys wearing what we thought at the time were "illegal" (now
USATF is saying they are not) shoes led the Boston marathon for the first half of the race in what if emailers are correct was just a publicity stunt. *Update: USATF is Saying the Spira Shoes are Not Banned Just maybe they could have told us this 1, 2 years ago? If they're not banned and Spira knew this, Spira (and USATF) should be ashamed. If they are, Spira should be ashamed. *Weather
Better Than Expected in Boston Boston Globe
Mt Sac Shalane Flanagan Sets American 5000m Record
(14:44.80) Shalane's fabulous 2007 season kicked off outdoors
like it did indoors, with an American record. This time she took down
drug cheat Regina Jacobs 5k record, (14:45.38) as Flanagan ran
14:44.80 thanks to a strong final k. And in the men's 5k, Juan Barrios
won, but
4 American hit the World Championship "A" standard, led by
Anthony Famiglietti who was 2nd in 13:11. (Ryan
Kirkpatrick, Ed Moran, and Josh McDougal
are the others) Fam's huge pr was less than a month after his American
8k win in NYC. Juan Barrios of Mexico won the men's 5k in a world
leading 13:11.
*Results
*IAAF
Recap of Mt. Sac Including Juan Barrios World Leading 13:11 5k
*VIDEO: Flocast
Has Recaps of All the Top Races (and
even the "B" races)and Interviews with Shalane and Fam.
*Scott Davis,
Mt. Sac Meet Director is Calling it Quits as Meet Director God gave him another chance at
life and being a meet director no longer is in his plans.
Sonia
O'Sullivan Running Great Bupa Ireland Run This Weekend As Her Final
Road Race BBC
Steve
Riddick Fraud Case Gets Underway, His lawyer Accuses Tim Montgomery of
Brokering Kilo Drug Transactions If
true, Montgomery's case is getting sadder by the minute.
Devine Racing
Still Trying to Tarnish Whatever Little Reputation it Still Has Left The
way we read this article the checks have been in the mail for over a
month as Devine still has not paid last year's prize money for the Salt
Lake City Marathon (this year's race is next week). USATF also
is a joke for continuing to sanction such an event. We need to start a
section on here where you all can rate the
road races you run.
Drugs, Drugs,
Drugs:
Balco
II is Here
In case you didn't know the drug testing in the major sports isn't too
effective. Pharmacists and doctors all over America were arrested in a
new huge steroid scandal. NFL, MLB players, and boxer Evander Holyfield
are implicated along
with the Pittsburgh Steelers' team doctor who ordered up $150,000 of
HGH on his private credit card.
*Longer Recap from Albany
Times Union
*Doctors
Reap Tons of Money
from Prescribing Drugs
*Unrelated but in the news: Barry
Bonds' Camp Has Never Disputed Steroids Evidence in Game of Shadows Book
JoggersWorld
buys Running Times Seriously we think Runnersworld
magazine has improved recently. Usually 1 article worth reading plus Ed
Eyestone.
*Message
board thread
*LetsRun.com
Gets Unsolicited Buyout offer
Married
Thanks to LetsRun.com:
"I don't want to say it. It sounds crazy but it was a dream come true"
-John Stiner, on getting married to his
wife, Sarah, who he met on the LetsRun.com message
boards. Read about their incredible story.
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